CVE-2017-3138
named exits with a REQUIRE assertion failure if it receives a null command string on its control channel
02 Description
named exits with a REQUIRE assertion failure if it receives a null command string on its control channel
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 5.50% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 92.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2019-01-16 20:00Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-16 22:40Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-12-02
- Assigning CNA
- isc
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 6.5)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-617Reachable AssertionBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 84e5cea1c68f68503ffd48ba51659b4e6d85174947a458b9c0d9d29a731b0de2
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securitytracker.com1038260http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038260
- www.securityfocus.com97657http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97657
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201708-01https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-01
- security.netapp.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180802-0002/
- www.debian.orgDSA-3854https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3854
- kb.isc.orghttps://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01471
07 Remediation
Upgrade to the patched release most closely related to your current version of BIND. These can all be downloaded from http://www.isc.org/downloads. BIND 9 version 9.9.9-P8 BIND 9 version 9.10.4-P8 BIND 9 version 9.11.0-P5 BIND Supported Preview Edition is a special feature preview branch of BIND provided to eligible ISC support customers. BIND 9 version 9.9.9-S10 New maintenance releases of BIND are also scheduled which contain the fix for this vulnerability. In addition to the security releases listed above, fixes for this vulnerability are also included in these release candidate versions: BIND 9 version 9.9.10rc3 BIND 9 version 9.10.5rc3 BIND 9 version 9.11.1rc3
08 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- bind Fixed in 9.11.1-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- bind9 Fixed in 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- bind9 Fixed in 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- bind9 Fixed in 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- bind9 Fixed in 1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.14
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- bind9 Fixed in 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.6
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.